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What to know about the next ticket phase for Euro 2024 in Germany

From December 4th, football fans will be able to apply for tickets to attend the 2024 UEFA European Championships football tournament in Germany, following the final draw that takes place two days earlier.

Published: 30 November 2023 10:36 CET

A EURO 2024 football on the pitch in Berlin. Photo: picture alliance/dpa | Bernd von Jutrczenka

What’s happening?

Germany is getting ready to host the European Championships – or Euros – next year.

The national football team will kick things off at the opening match in Munich on June 14th, while the final will be hosted in Berlin a month later on July 14th.

Fans hoping to attend games, which are being held at various locations across Germany, have already had once chance to get into the draw for tickets which are allocated through a lottery system.

And the second round of tickets can be applied for from Monday December 4th.

This time, however, tickets are being targeted to those who want to support the teams that have qualified.

The ticket release happens after the final tournament draw, which takes place on Saturday December 2nd at 6pm in Hamburg.

The draw will be streamed live on UEFA.com and UEFA’s 2024 app, while some broadcasters will also air it.

After this, it will be revealed when major teams like Spain, France and England will be playing in the group stages and in which stadiums they will play. As the host nation, Germany already has a spot in Group A and in the opening match.

A smartphone displays the app and logo for the UEFA Euros 2024

A smartphone displays the app and logo for the UEFA Euros 2024 in Germany. Photo: picture alliance/dpa/Zuma Press | Aleksandr Gusev

What do I need to know about tickets?

As in the first phase, around a million tickets are for sale. After the second sales phase is completed, 2.2 million of the total 2.7 million tickets will be gone.

However, this time tickets will be allocated to supporters of the qualified teams “in close cooperation with the national associations concerned” following the final tournament draw, according to UEFA, who have more information on the tickets allocated to different countries published here.

There are three options for Germany fans. The largest number of tickets will go to the National Team Fan Club (Fan Club Nationalmannschaft), which has around 55,000 members. There was also the option of registering an independently organised fan club with the German Football Association (DFB). They also receive a fixed number of tickets.

Another option is to register on your own. To participate in this, you have to pay €5 for the costs of the registration and the process.

Tickets for any games played by the German team in the knockout rounds from the round of 16 onwards will only go on sale after the group phase. In all cases, tickets will be distributed in the order in which registrations are received.

When it comes to the cost, fans may have to dig deep – but deals are also available. The cheapest tickets in the regular segments cost €30, while the most expensive will set you back €1,000.

Who will play when and where will be decided at the group draw on December 2nd in the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie.

A total of 21 teams have already qualified, while three more will be determined in play-off games in March 2024.

What else should ticket buyers know?

Each person can order up to four tickets per game.

According to UEFA, the tickets cannot be returned.

“If you were successful in the raffle, you must pay for all tickets that were allocated to you,” it says. The recommendation is therefore to only apply for games that you actually want to attend.

UEFA is making it possible to resell tickets through official channels, however, the association points out that the resale of tickets can’t be guaranteed.

The tickets are conditionally transferable. If you are unable to attend a game for health reasons, for example, you can pass your ticket on to a friend or family member after submitting the details of the new ticket holder.

What happened in the first round of ticket sales – and what happens next?

As we mentioned, the first 1.2 million tickets have already been allocated.

The public round of sales kicked off on October 3rd and ran until October 26th on the official UEFA website, with the football association reporting that around 20 million people applied for a coveted ticket.

Tickets were allocated through a lottery system, with successful and unsuccessful applicants being notified by email or on the UEFA fan portal.

Following the December ticket allocation, some tickets will be held back “for sale to supporters of the national teams that qualify through the UEFA Euro 2024 play-offs, scheduled for March 21st and March 26th 2024”, according to UEFA.

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Now widely known as the Summer Fairytale (Sommermärchen), the tournament is remembered as the moment a unified Germany shook off the shadows of its dark past and showed the world a new, modern face.

On the field, the German team coached by Jurgen Klinsmann overcame dire pre-tournament predictions to make it to the semi-finals.

Despite losing in extra time to eventual champions Italy and eventually finishing third, Germany’s performance kick-started a decade of dominance that peaked with the 2014 World Cup triumph in Brazil.

Off the field, the tournament changed not only the way the world saw Germany, but the manner in which Germany saw itself.

Philipp Lahm, a key player in 2006 who captained Germany to World Cup glory eight years later, told AFP: “In 2006 we were able to experience the whole nation standing behind the team and giving us energy.

“The celebrations are good. That people come here to Germany and celebrate a big festival together.”

‘Where are all the Germans?’

German sports sociologist and philosopher Gunter Gebauer told AFP the tournament had a sudden and long-lasting impact.

“Before the tournament, the mood in Germany was very, very poor. The economy was not going well. The weather was bad and the football was atrocious.

“And then the World Cup started and during Germany’s first game against Costa Rica, Philipp Lahm scored and the sun burst through — it was almost like something from the Bible.”

Living in a middle-class Berlin suburb, Gebauer saw a neighbour unfurl a German flag from his balcony, previously considered a “taboo” due to the nation’s post-World War II reservations with nationalism.

“From there, we saw German flags and singing the anthem at Germany games — something which just didn’t exist before.”

The dissolving of internal reservations meant World Cup visitors saw a different side to the straight, rule-enforcing Germans familiar from national stereotypes.

“Foreigners who came to Germany were delighted with the German public.

“The English people asked ‘where are all the bloody Germans? We’ve only come across friendly people who are partying everywhere’.”

Wolfgang Männig, a rower who won gold for Germany at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, is now a professor of sports economics at Hamburg University.

‘Feel-good effect’

In an interview with AFP, Männig said while the economic benefits of large events were often negligible, “the feel-good effect was the essence of the 2006 World Cup.”

Before the World Cup, “Germans were not exactly considered world leaders when it comes to being welcoming,” but after 2006 “Germany has improved significantly in international perceptions.”

Albärt, the mascot of the UEFA Euro 2024 European Football Championships, poses with the tournament’s trophy and a ball at the Allianz Arena stadium, one of the host stadiums that will be called Munich Football Arena during the UEFA Euro 2024 European Football Championships. Photo: ALEXANDRA BEIER / AFP

“I believe that foreigners see us completely differently, no longer as unenthusiastic, somewhat peculiar people, but as open and happy, which made us more comfortable with how we see ourselves.”

Jan Haut, a sports sociologist at Goethe University, told AFP “the German people became a bit less stiff. They were more comfortable and confident celebrating victories of the national team”.

“What was rather new was that Germans themselves became more aware that in other countries the picture of Germany isn’t as bad as the Germans had thought,” he added.

‘Only football can do this’

While 18 years have passed and both Germany and the world have changed, many parallels remain.

Germany again is wracked by economic uncertainty, infrastructure concerns and fears of poor on-field performances.

Haut said the world’s attention would again shine a light on Germany, for bad and for good.

“In the worst case, there might be some surprises — maybe that people become aware that things don’t work so well in Germany currently, like public transport.”

After the humiliation of two successive World Cup exits in the group stage, Germany have shown signs of life under coach Julian Nagelsmann.

They won just three of 11 games in 2023 but rebounded with strong wins over France and Netherlands in March.

Whatever the team’s results in the tournament, Maennig said Germany could bank on the unifying impact of the national sport.

“As a rower I say this with a bit of sorrow in my voice, but only football can bring people together like this. The cafes and restaurants show the games on monitors and you can sit and watch in a friendly atmosphere.

“It’s really quite enchanting.”